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lumpy person

paramaribo77

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french
hi
Can be used to qualify somebody? lumpy means: grumeleux, so what could it mean when applied to a person?
quelqu'un de grumeleux 👁 Frown :(
, pas lisse?
Thanks
well a lumpy person, in English (even though it sounds a little twisted and odd) generally means someone who is overweight or fat. Certainly that is what it suggests to me. Perhaps others might contradict me
👁 Smile :)
Yes, it suppose it would suggest someone with a not very graceful physique that bulges in various places in a not especially attractive way
You should know it sounds very weird, it's not something a native speaker would say. The image that came to my mind is someone with some strange, lumpy skin disease, but even so, it doesn't match the "lumpy person."

Are you actually trying to say they are fat?
You could say "she has a bit of a lumpy figure" I suppose, if you were not very polite; sounds more likely than just "she's lumpy"
I found it on a Spanish site for learners of English as a second language
The adjective lumpy is used to describeCinderella's step sisters ( lumpy, clumsy and ugly).
So?
I know I am quite late to this thread, but I have a relevant question. Around here, to "be a lump," would correspond somewhat to the English phrase "a bump on a log." That phrase can give the connotation of sitting quietly, so it is not exactly the same as "to be a lump," which has the connotation of sitting passively and inactively, yet it is as close as I can explain. For example, I say it to my students quite frequently: "you guys are a bunch of lumps today." Or "ok, folks, stop being so lumpy!" I would imagine that I could say "ok les lourdauds!" But that sounds a bit harsher than perhaps I mean.
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